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Thanks, and I'm not offended at all. You're right; there is apparently some crossover between ADHD and Asperger's and the doctor initially considered Asperger's in my case. However, there are apparently some other issues with both ADHD and Asperger's. ADHD people seem to have a hard time with executive functions that control things like planning, managing time, etc. These areas have also been problems for me. It sounds like people with Aspergers can be a little more rigid about some things, like schedule, environment, etc. In my case, traveling and doing non-routine things don't generally bother me that much. So maybe for those reasons, I ended up in the ADHD bucket. There's really a broad spectrum of symptoms, though, so ADHDers are quite diverse. In my case, the social skills deficit was very pronounced, but I wasn't hyperactive and the academic difficulties didn't start until college.
Maybe this raises some good questions about how GLOs can deal with members who have problems like this. I don't think that there are easy or obvious answers to this.
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